Natural Resources Blogging

Article posted October 25, 2007 at 09:18 PM GMT0 • Reads 761

Some of our grade 5 students will be using blogs as a means of documenting their research projects on Natural Resource topics. Stay tuned...

Good job!

Article posted November 8, 2007 at 11:35 PM GMT0 • Reads 39

Students had an interesting time today learning how to get their research blogs started. We'll work on them again tomorrow. Good job!



We will be diving into our research tomorrow as well. If you want to do some work from home and are exploring a forestry or mining topic, check out the pre-selected links in your classroom links - Science - Natural Resources section of the library website (see the link on the left side of this blog).

The First Two Steps

Article posted November 19, 2007 at 05:49 PM GMT0 • Reads 468

On Friday we started learning some pretty cool searching strategies for using online resources such as Encyclopedias (WorldBook Online and The Encyclopedia of BC) and our Parkcrest Library catalogue. Encyclopedias and Books are the first two steps in our research searching plan. Always start with these two steps for the most reliable information. Searching on the free Internet can be useful too, but you can't always be sure that what you're finding is the most accurate, up-to-date information. Anyone can publish anything to the web. Encyclopedias and books are edited, published, and reviewed by educators. You know that you will always find the "good stuff" in these resources!



Don't forget to always use the "Advance Search" or "Power Search" to find the best results. Remember the "Boolean Aerobics" that we learned as well, using the search terms "and", "or", and "not". They will help you find the most specific results when you are searching!